Keynote(s), Panel Talk
Aesthetics of Club Culture15:00–16:30
90 min
Club U (downstairs)
Catharine Rossi
she/her
University for the Creative Arts
Folkestone, United Kingdom
Dr Catharine Rossi is Professor of Architecture at the University for the Creative Arts Canterbury, where she leads research in the School for Architecture and Design. A design historian specialising in 20th and 21st century design, her research interests include club culture, contemporary design, post-war Italian design and architecture, craft, and feminism. Publications include Designing Craft in Italy: from Postwar to Postmodernism (MUP, 2015), and the co-edited Post-Craft (Sternberg Press, 2022) and The Italian Avant-Garde (Sternberg Press, 2013). Exhibitions include the co-curated At Home: Panorama de nos Vies Domestiques (Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne, 2022), Night Fever: Designing Club Culture 1960 to Today (Vitra Design Museum, 2018) and Space Electronic: Then and Now (14th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2014).